SubmitEvent: submitter property

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The read-only submitter property found on the {{domxref("SubmitEvent")}} interface specifies the submit button or other element that was invoked to cause the form to be submitted.

Value

An element, indicating the element that sent the {{domxref("HTMLFormElement.submit_event", "submit")}} event to the form. While this is often an {{HTMLElement("input")}} element whose type is submit or a {{HTMLElement("button")}} element whose type is submit, it could be some other element which has initiated a submission process.

If the submission was not triggered by a button of some kind, the value of submitter is null.

Examples

See SubmitEvent for example code.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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